What makes you come alive?

Just love this one ...

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Harold Thurman Whitman

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Family gardening

I updated the Resources for Families pages over the weekend, and if you are interested, these are the pages updated....

Family Nutrition

Parenting

Books and reading

Teenagers

but I wanted to share this book review that I also added.

All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback) by Mel Bartholomew

...anyone, anywhere can enjoy a Square Foot garden. Children, adults with limited mobility, even complete novices can achieve spectacular results.

I've rarely seen a more reader-friendly book! It comes complete with layout pages, very consise planting guides, even planting time tables for your area and the amount of time you can store your seeds! If you have never gardened before or started a garden that eventually left you frustrated, then this is the book for you! I just think that you should check your area for agricultural grade vermiculite before you buy the book. But once that little snafu is over, you are going to be amazed at how brilliant and easy this book makes successful gardening. I highly recommend this method for busy people and parents like myself. It is wonderfully easy to maintain, makes loads of produce, and looks very attractive. Two green thumbs way, way up.

Amazon - $13.59

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Just for fun - living in 2006

This week's Just for Fun post comes from Bill Bradley

--You know you're living in 2006 when...

1. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

4. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

5. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

More humour at my Just for Fun web page ...


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To create a great speech or presentation – don’t just research the content.

This is a brand new article, and is actually an extract from my online course on how to write a great speech.

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To create a great speech or presentation you certainly need content that will appeal to your audience and that will support the impact you want to make. Research will find you that content. But you also need to research vital details about audience, venue and context if that speech is to be successful and is to have the impact that you want it to create. Read on ...

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Language rules

Communication and language is changing and evolving rapidly. So it was interesting to join the community at a new blog called "Language Rules." It is devoted to the rules of American English and I am enjoying being part of the community. At first I thought "What relevance can we make of these rules in a climate that seems bent on flaunting them?" But I've realised, since, that there are people who want to abide by those rules and need to know what they are. Check out Language rules.

And on the subject of Communication, I've updated the webpages on communication if you want to visit.

Two new articles:
Continuing the message
Review Techniques: Keeping Acquired Information Fresh in Your Mind

Two new success tips:
Meetings, Communication

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Kwan skipping season to go to college - wow!

This headline jumped out at me this morning. Strange because so many headlines about sporting figures are there, but not of interest.

(I will digress for a moment, though, and comment that I followed a series of American news items about an athlete with a broken leg. There was huge attention - the story ran for days and it wan't until I read what must have been about the fifth day's story that I realised it was a horse!! - I thought it must be a football player!!)

There are stories about individual athletes and their performances or lack of, about coaches, about teams. Many of these people are treated in the news items as if they are celebrities and the whole industry seems to be surrounded with media magic.

So it is attention-grabbing for me to read about a person putting their sporting career on hold to attend college - what give up that huge commitment, that magic status to go to college? What has college to offer in comparison?

I'm off to investigate participation in two blogging endeavours -
successjolt and language rules. See you there!

Bronwyn

Vale Steve Irwin

I'm just so sorry he has gone. For all of us who wonder if there is anything we can do for the environment, he was a hero, and did something. For all of us who wonder if cruelty to animals and lack of concern for their future is going to take over, he was a hero and did something. For all of us who think life can be very hum drum sometimes, he was passionate. I wanted him to go on forever .. and he didn't. I'm sorry Steve - for you, for your wife, for your beautiful little children and for all of us who will be the worse because you've gone.

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Happy International Blog Day

I celebrated International blog Day with the Thali over at Libraries Interact. It was a challenge to define just what blogging means to me, but easier to list 5 blogs I enjoy. They area diverse list, but I'm very happy to share them. Have a happy blog day!!

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